Donald Trump wishes to focus the United States budget for 2026 on internal security and defense, while sanding in another public spending, the White House said on Friday.
This first project includes an increase of 13% in the defense budget and 65% of internal security, the areas presented as a priority during the electoral campaign.
But it also provides 22% cuts in state non -military expenses, $ 163 billion, while the Trump administration has charged Elon Musk to reduce federal expenditure, with thousands of dispensing layoffs.
The budget project of a president who has fought against illegal immigration, one of his priorities emphasizes border security to finance “mass evictions and stop the flow of advantages granted without limits to illegal migrants, preferred to US citizens,” according to the White House.
This “Lean Budget” project is listed by the priorities of the Executive. A more complete version will be subject to the posterior current of the Congress.
An already played budget proposal
The head of the Democrats in the Senate immediately denounced the text: “His policy is nothing other than a good position against Americans who work hard,” said Chuck Schumer in a statement. “While it is in a forest of health programs, it attacks education and abolishing the programs in which families depend, it finances tax reductions for billionaires and large companies.”
Many cuts desired by the objective programs of the republican government considered “awakened”, a pejorative term used by conservatives to designate policies to promote diversity or university research currents on gender or racial discrimination.
Source: BFM TV
